I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Every day, the lady is a punk
Honestly, I have no use for the precious little fool
And I have been cautioning everyone against her for years: her friendship is the same as a viper's.
If this is a homerun, I will be satisfied.
Dammit, Jim!
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Normally I'd say it's much to early to know who will get wanker of the day, but not today!
Now, I will call sheets
If this is a homerun, I will be satisfied.
DWD - Dirty Fucking Hippy
you're easy.
Dammit, I just blogwhored downstairs.
Chicago to build 2,000 foot Vibrator
Drunken cats (only posted on the last sixteen threads!)
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3,000 soldiers have died in Iraq because people like Maureen Down said that what Al Gore wore and how he talked was more important than the candidates experience and positions on the issues.
How many more will have to die because of shit like this?
MoDo makes me wanna scream. And not in a good way.
i like swiss cheese.
MoDo stalks hairstylists?
Victoria Toensing's brother had better watch out!
Wholeheartedly agree!!!!
I was very disappointed. She's reliving Gore's earth tones.
Ahem.
NTodd Kaczynski
you know, you should get a blog so people can read your stuff. if you do, be sure and let atrios know, maybe he will link to it sometimes.
Wait a second--two minutes ago, there were gravatars all over the place.
Saw that coming.
i like earthtones
dirk gently: i like swiss cheese.
I like big butts, and I cannot lie.
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Wait a second--two minutes ago, there were gravatars all over the place.
Editoress
if you don't like the gravatar state, wait a couple minutes. it will change.
i think hair is the least important issue somehow.
i mean its not like Iraq or crappy Republican policies are important.
what on earth inspired MoDo to devote a whole column to Edward's hair?
i like nicely cut hair
Speak roughly to your blogmaster
And beat him when he sneezes
He only does it to annoy
Because he knows it teases. 
I do not like MoDo!
At all!
Any questions?
you know, you should get a blog so people can read your stuff. if you do, be sure and let atrios know, maybe he will link to it sometimes.
dirk gently
Hey, here's an idea - maybe he'd blogroll you!
/waits for the obligatory "she's hawt" comment...
Dammit, I just blogwhored downstairs.
Chicago to build 2,000 foot Vibrator
attaturk | Homepage | 04.21.07 - 11:10 am | #
I imagine Christo is making plans to drape it in vinyl already
And she was probably giggling while writing, thinking, oh this will the left's knickers in a twist.
Bitch.
What?
Does MoDo go to Supercuts?
Please STFU.
(btw I didn't know that Cheez Whiz was used in cheesesteaks.)
(ugh)
the British press here took great pleasure in focusing on how much Cherie Blair spent on her haircut during the last general election.
Everybody that windsurfs wears spandex; same thing with those clingy bicycling outfits, too. When I saw her subject, I didn't even read it.
Zap Rowsdower: /waits for the obligatory "she's hawt" comment...
She looks like she's trying to hide her teeth when she talks. I don't trust anyone who does that.
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think hair is the least important issue somehow.
That's cause you're British. You don't get it - hair the most important thing we look for in a politician.
Does MoDo go to Supercuts? Yes, it helps offset the Botox cosmetic .
What?
Does MoDo go to Supercuts?
Please STFU.
She's living in Manhattan - I want to know how much she pays for her hair.
I will bet you her cut comes $200 or more and she gets it dyed, and that's another several hundred dollars.
Republics are the "Daddy Party," doncha know? They cut their own hair with bowie knives.
Fuck Dowd!
Republicans could make snow angels in piles of money and she wouldn't say a fucking thing!!
OK --
Did Edwards actually pay $400.00 for a haircut?
I am suspicious about the story & admit that he made a tactical error if he did (I don't really care, but it is ammo for the bad guys -- like the bloggers hiring & non - firing)
I guess regular old skyscrapers just aren't phallic enough anymore.
Prior - they don't need ammo - they'll make it up. So it doesn't really matter what our people do -
MoDO dyes her hair?
Who knew?
I bet the real story is that Edwards paid for some manscaping.
Cheez-Wiz?
Gahhhhhh. On Wonderbread, right? Or maybe mixed with some Ro-Tel tomatoes 'n' hot(tish) peppers?
Lord.
(I don't really care, but it is ammo for the bad guys -- like the bloggers hiring & non - firing)
Prior Aelred
Here's the thing. It doesn't matter. They would just find something else to play into the meme that Edwards is effiminate. That's all this is.
Mentioned it earlier, but she boinked John Tierney.
For that alone, she should be shunned by all who walk upright.
hair the most important thing we look for in a politician.
As a bald man, I'm reminded of an episode of Seinfeld when George is crushed to find out that women are fond of mens hair.
I'm over it now (and yes, Tena, I know you were joking)
I guess regular old skyscrapers just aren't phallic enough anymore.
Jennifer | 04.21.07 - 11:18 am | #
Jennifer, when did you work for Harcourt?
I can see that the journos are all doing a great job of keeping this all dignified out of respect for the fact that his wife has terminal breast cancer.
And if you're going to windsurf off the coast of Massachusetts, you'll be wearing more than Spandex, you'll be wearing neoprene, or else you'll be dead of hypothermia in pretty short order.
Fuck you, MoDo.
I imagine Christo is making plans to drape it in vinyl already
Hellkitty | 04.21.07 - 11:15 am | #
latex.
Weal phalluses awen't wectangulaw.
I will bet any of you that MoDo plunks down upwards of $500 to get her hair cut and dyed and taken care of.
It costs a lot of money in New York and I want to know who she goes to and how much she pays.
Someone should tell MoDo that she's not nearly good-looking enough to get away with being such a huge bitch.
a hair cut and blow dry at my hairdresser costs £14, special deal for me as I'm a student and a long time customer.
been going to my hairdresser since I was a little girl, he even has a Myspace page - Scott Green - ACU
shit, i owe Tena a coke.
As a bald man, I'm reminded of an episode of Seinfeld when George is crushed to find out that women are fond of mens hair.
"i hate that thing!" --elaine
Tena --
True, but if it is a flat out lie I can say "That is a flat out lie!" If a good guy screwed up, I can't say that (because I am not a Republican)!
Hellkitty - I worked for them in 2004 and continued doing per diem work into 2005.
Worst. Job. Ever.
I hoid da cheez is cooked inta da meat, mostly.
my hairdressers Myspace page- Scott Green - ACU
My haircutter charges $58 for a trim.
I pay $150 an hour to get it straightened twice a year.
See why I'm not running for president?
GWPDA - Would it be terrible to make seat covers in cotton? Only two chairs get used much, the others just kind of hang out till there is company.
cookiefuck
Zap Rowsdower: As a bald man, I'm reminded of an episode of Seinfeld when George is crushed to find out that women are fond of mens hair.
And yet, during that show's heyday, Patrick Stewart was named Sexiest Man how many times...?
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atrios:
Would it not be better to use Dowd's full, actual name?
And the faggotization of Edwards continues apace.
These people are bereft of any human decency whatsoever.
Well, I can just about guarantee what Bob Somerby's Monday "Howler" will be about.
In fact, let me check if he's published a special Saturday edition.
That oughta take long enough for two or three more threads to open.
Meanwhile, I offer the deadthread observation that my moderately liberal sister likes MoDo, unless sis has evolved recently. I believe that fans find her deliciously snarky, a "it's funny because it's true" kind of social critic.
Eventually, I hope, MoDo's utterly shallow and self-serving quality will finally come through.
"i hate that thing!" --elaine
I love when George says (something to the effect of): "These are remanents of a once-great society!", in reference to his hair.
Would it not be better to use Dowd's full, actual name?
No.
Luckily for MoDo, columnists and political snipers are allowed all the expensive haircuts they want. I'm guessing that she regularly visits a salon in Manhattan.
Would it not be better to use Dowd's full, actual name?
Porgy Tirebiter
No.
This has been another in a series of simple answers to simple fucking questions.
I'm fricking bald and yet I persist in the ritual of getting a haircut from time to time.
Supercuts today, people!!!!
ql in ny --
Yeah, but see reply to Tena
We shouldn't do the bad guys work for them (IMHO)
Believe me, I am not waiting until the flawless candidate comes along! My entire voting career has been choosing "the lesser of two evils" - it's important!
Edwards' mistake here was admitting wrongdoing by paying for the haircut out of his own money. He should have flatly stated that he wouldn't need such expensive haircuts if he weren't running for President in such a TV-driven, image conscious society, and that it is therefore a legitimate campaign expense.
Luckily for MoDo, columnists and political snipers are allowed all the expensive haircuts they want. I'm guessing that she regularly visits a salon in Manhattan.
OF course she does and you can barely get your hair cut in Manhattan for under a couple of hundred dollars at the minimum for someone like her who goes to a name hairdresser and I know she does.
I want to know who she sees, what she has done and how much it costs her.
My haircutter charges $58 for a trim.
I pay $150 an hour to get it straightened twice a year.
See why I'm not running for president?
Ok, Marie Antoinette, isn't about time for your milk bath?? :o)
GIOT
Get It Out There.
that is the whole, sole, and only principle of attack propaganda: Get It Out There...
once the accusation is out there, it doesn't matter a whit what the what the attacked person says afterwards...
no denial, no negation, no rebuttal will erase the initial accusation/meme...
the SCUM willingly abet this phenomenon...
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I'm fricking bald and yet I persist in the ritual of getting a haircut from time to time.
/reverts to 3rd person speak
Zap "cuts" his own hair. Beard trimmers are a gosh-send.
my dad often jokes how his hair getting too long, I see old photos of my dad with long hair and he looks like a different person.
my dad is 60, turns 61 this June, he's a grumpy old man some days, but he has a free bus pass and a winter fuel allowance as he is over 60.
I thought that bit I posted from the Wall Street Journal in the last thread was just amazing. Did people see that? (I will not repost without a request but it seems that the USA that oversees the district that includes Congressman Renzi's shenanigans was ALSO fired in the Gonzales purge - this USA firing story is like a three week old carp on the beach in the hot sun)
you notice she throws in a gratuitous comment about her manly man of a father -- he didn't get no expensive girly haircuts.
also, modo is full of shit. the voters of iowa have more important issues to concern themselves with than the chattermonkeys of wdc -- from the des moines register:
Edwards predicted that fallout from the gaffe would pass quickly as Americans focus on the country's more serious problems.
Several voters agreed.
Terry Selim, an undecided voter who listened to Edwards speak in Boone later Friday, said he doubted such a trivial thing would matter much in next January's Iowa caucuses.
"I don't care what color his tie is, or how his hair looks," Selim said.
and also this:
Edwards, Romney get top donations
By JANE NORMAN
REGISTER WASHINGTON BUREAU
Washington, D.C. - When it comes to picking up large campaign contributions from Iowans, presidential candidates Mitt Romney and John Edwards are at the top of the list, campaign finance reports filed Sunday show.
I will bet any of you that MoDo plunks down upwards of $500 to get her hair cut and dyed and taken care of.
It costs a lot of money in New York and I want to know who she goes to and how much she pays.
Tena
but we already know modo is vacuous and superficial.
GWPDA - Would it be terrible to make seat covers in cotton? Only two chairs get used much, the others just kind of hang out till there is company.
ql in ny
My dear, you would be an absolute fashionista if you slipcovered everything. There are patterns, Butterick I think, for most styles. Find a good heavy textured cotton and you're in good shape.
oooopsies...an attack of the boldies
sorry
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I wish 500 people would write in, saying, "Good Lord, dear; what a vapid column about an irrelevant topic!"
John Edwards can come here and get it done for twelve bucks.
The bookstore next door has hosted Bill and Hillary, and some obscure writer by the name of Grisham is a regular there too.
If he really wants to stick it to the man, he needs to live like the fans in bleacher seats do...
Ok, Marie Antoinette, isn't about time for your milk bath?? :o)
Kid Charlemagne
Honey, I get my hair trimmed on average twice a year. If you add up what women who dye their hair are paying for touchups annually, I come out cheaply.
I don't dye my hair and no matter how you approach it, it's going to cost you some money if you live in the city.
The Taleban in Afghanistan have used a boy of around 12 to behead a man they accused of spying for the US.
Parts of a video of the beheading were broadcast on the Dubai-based al-Arabiya TV network.
The Taleban said the dead man, Ghulam Nabi, had given the US information which led to an air strike in which a senior Taleban commander died.
The video footage shows Mr Nabi being blindfolded with a chequered scarf and making what is said to be a confession.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south...sia/
6579487.stm
I want to know who she sees, what she has done and how much it costs her.
Tena
and it's not just the cut she's paying for -- there's a whole lot of color in there too. i mean the broad is 55 years old -- and no gray?
(I will not repost without a request but it seems that the USA that oversees the district that includes Congressman Renzi's shenanigans was ALSO fired in the Gonzales purge
Um, yes, DWD, that's Paul Charlton, the Arizona USA. That's where Renzi is a representative, and that's where Sierra Vista and Ft. Huachuca are.
What about MoDo's hair?
Maybe some Revolutionary Hairdresser Cadre can kidnap the bitch, tie her to a chair and give her the mohawk she secretly craves.
oooopsies...an attack of the boldies
Boldies are a symptom of a good birthday. Hope it was fun.
you notice she throws in a gratuitous comment about her manly man of a father -- he didn't get no expensive girly haircuts.
And didn't he run for president in 1914?
Speakin' of slipcovers, I thought about getting the b&w pawprints... but I suspect I won't have this scoot long enough to justify the $60...
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blerb --
Interesting point -- does refusing ever to admit you've made a mistake pay off? Hilary & Obama seem to think so -- Edwards was pretty much stuck if he was really going to be against the Iraq occupation (which qa Democratic candidate ought to be, IMHO) - he screwed up on the vote -- Atrios was smart enough to know that voting for was stupid -- either the war would be a success & the Republicans would ride to victory OR it would be a catastrophe & you would have voted wrong (is Atrios old enough to run for president? How much does he pay for a haircut?)
I'm fricking bald and yet I persist in the ritual of getting a haircut from time to time.
i dont ever hafta cut it, cuz it stopped by itself...
and i only rarely trim the beard...
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and it's not just the cut she's paying for -- there's a whole lot of color in there too. i mean the broad is 55 years old -- and no gray?
linda |
That's what I've been saying. She has it colored - I know she does. That's not cheap in Manhattan.
Nothing is - and before she starts doing this again with every column, I do want to know what she pays and what she has done. I know she pays that much or more.
I wonder how much Rick (gee my hair smells terrific) Perry and Oven Mitt pay for their haircuts?
I don't dye my hair and no matter how you approach it, it's going to cost you some money if you live in the city.
I know. Here is DC my wife pays $100 a visit for her hair. I still go to the barber.
Someone should tell MoDo that she's not nearly good-looking enough to get away with being such a huge bitch.
Jennifer
heh. Plus implying that the boy is a wuss.
Like with Kerry - a windsurfer and full-on hockey player where the repukes are soft-handed fat bastards.
Not an athlete in the bunch. Not one.
you notice she throws in a gratuitous comment about her manly man of a father -- he didn't get no expensive girly haircuts.
Is his name "Big Russ"?
I know. Here is DC my wife pays $100 a visit for her hair. I still go to the barber.
Kid Charlemagn
Thanks. I"m hardly Marie Antoinette -
I go to relatively cheap hairdressers, for Dallas. The big guys charge as much as $300 for haircuts. I don't.
NTodd
Nice post on this topic. Too bad Atrios didn't have the foresight to link to you.
I don't pay that - I didn't finish that sentence.
Pardon me, if this has aready been noted.
But over at Swampland, Karen Tumulty posted something nice about the blessed event chez Trifecta.
Color me amazed.
I have to have root touch-ups every 2-1/2 weeks, or I start getting the Pepe LePew look.
My dear late friend Mark made a deal with me years ago to do my hair for $25 per session, throwing in a cut every third time. Of course, I regularly tipped him 100% of the charge, more when he did the cut every third time...I knew he was doing me a big favor and that it was a bargain, but looking at what some of the rest of you pay, I had no idea how big of a bargain it was...since he passed away, the salon where he worked has made more or less the same deal with me, only bumped up by $20 per visit...still a great bargain, it would appear.
and it's not just the cut she's paying for -- there's a whole lot of color in there too. i mean the broad is 55 years old -- and no gray?
linda
i do give her credit for one thing though. she wore a blouse for an interview that i just wasn't getting. then i read somewhere she wears retro clothing. i thought "oh, that explains the blouse."
Maybe some Revolutionary Hairdresser Cadre can kidnap the bitch, tie her to a chair and give her the mohawk she secretly craves.
or the "Sinead O'Connor" cut!
Since this week's return to op-ed, Dowd has continued to take a little off the sides, but has yet to defend her roles as an Imus favorite, relentless vacationer and the high-note giggling know-it-all
But over at Swampland, Karen Tumulty posted something nice about the blessed event chez Trifecta.
Color me amazed.
Wow. That's really cool.
"Now there's Brite Side with optical brighteners!" (jingle flits away)
I pay around $50 here, for a damned good cut - and then, my haircutter gets to pet the big old curly wave that's at the back of my haid. Every haircutter I've ever had is obsessed with that wave. I don't know why.
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and modo would have a field day with me...i refuse to cut mine at all.
Nice post on this topic. Too bad Atrios didn't have the foresight to link to you.
He never links to me. So now he's cut off from the Tastee Freez. One year.
WGG --
Didn't know that was an accident, I thought you were just being emphatic because you are absolutely right -- we are in LBJ territory, "I know he doesn't fuck pigs, but him deny it!"
May I remind MoDo that Waura spent almost twice that amount for her "hair"?
If he really wants to stick it to the man, he needs to live like the fans in bleacher seats do...
I wish these guys would figger that crap out.
I was forced to pay $20 the other day.
When did haircuts get so expensive??
NTodd has a blog?
Hi Vicki!
You in PA now?
May I remind MoDo that Waura spent almost twice that amount for her "hair"?
The wig my grandma used to wear looks better than that mop.
Ask MoDo how much she pays for her make-up. Because that woman has a lot of ugly to make up.
Me? I was blessed with very nice skin, and I still spend $ 40 for Merle Norman foundation, and way more for blush, and bronzer, eye pencil, eyebrow pencil, eyeshadow, and lips...
MoDo, you're as vain as many of us, so I suggest you humbly fall off of that high horse and onto the apology pony.
owlie
The vision of looking like Kate oBierne in the next few years haunts the poor woman appearance does matter in the Establishment you know-dreams of being a trophy wife are slipping past the real cool party volks aren't dropping off invites anymore.
Define irony.
watertiger | Homepage | 04.21.07 - 11:27 am | #
"A bunch of morons on an airplane dancing to the music of a band that died in a plane crash."
--Steve Buscemei, "Con Air"
BTW -- have fun tonight; best to everybody.
during the 2005 General election it emerged that the Labour party had footed a £7,700 bill for Cherie Blair's hairstylist
The Tories were quick to remind journalists that the comparable charge for Sandra Howard, wife of former leader Michael, had been a snip at just £65 for a one-off visit to a salon.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/
c...1758919,00.html
i pay $15 dollars + tip for a haircut, which i get every 6-8 months.
whether i need it or not.
when did fridges start costing over a thousand bucks?
SHEETZ!
MoDo, you're as vain as many of us, so I suggest you humbly fall off of that high horse and onto the apology pony.
Vicki, Who ? Al Gore
It's hypocritical of her in the extreme, it really is. I know she pays a lot for her makeup, her hair, everything. I know she does cause she gets paid a lot.
This makes me furious - I hate hypocrisy like this.
♪ ...I want it long, straight, curly, fuzzy
Snaggy, shaggy, ratty, matty
Oily, greasy, fleecy
Shining, gleaming, streaming
Flaxen, waxen
Knotted, polka-dotted
Twisted, beaded, braided
Powdered, flowered, and confettied
Bangled, tangled, spangled, and spaghettied!
Oh say can you see
My eyes if you can
Then my hair's too short
Down to here
Down to there
Down to where
It stops by itself... ♪
simels,
*cough*sshhh*cough*, 'kay?
modo doesn't posture herself as the defender of the poor.
I have had my hair cut twice in the last sixteen years. Each time, they took off about 11 inches. It's still long enough to sit on. I just got tired of paying $50+ every 6 weeks to get it cut.
*cough*sshhh*cough*, 'kay?
jello --
True, but I reserve the right to be pissed off anyway!
Baah. I was going to say that the inside jokes and secrets around here amuse me, but Haloscan ate my comment.
I think it's time for more MSM columnists to talk about MoDo's head, both in terms of her hair and the empty space directly beneath it.
modo doesn't posture herself as the defender of the poor.
jello
That has nothing to do withanything. MoDo is not running for President, in the public eye every second of the day, either. If they are going to have to spend $500,000 of campaign money for a TV ad designed to boost his image, what is $500 spent on a haircut to make sure he looks good in it next to that?
if edwards is going to successfully play the class card, he should avoid $400 haircuts. just sayin'...
Vicki --
HaloScan eating comments is one of the inside jokes around here -- all of my most brilliant insights, gone forever!
if edwards is going to successfully play the class card, he should avoid $400 haircuts. just sayin'...
travy
O the two definitely follow. How dare someone who isn't poor talk about poverty?
[/sarcasm]
"Look at that crappy haircut Edwards has! Doesn't he care enough about his campaign to look good in an ad?"
Where do I apply for the media whore job? (Actually, now that Shepherd Book is dead, I want the job of chaplain on Serenity!)
blerb, you really think politicians need to spend $500 on a haircut?
blerb, you really think politicians need to spend $500 on a haircut?
jello
Do you really think it's our business what someone pays for a haircut? How the hell does that matter?
Sheetz - of course!
sheeeeeit.
Tena --
U R lightyears behind!
I've been topside chatting with Moonbootica & Vicki for ages!
Do you really think it's our business what someone pays for a haircut? How the hell does that matter?
Tena
it comes down to authenticity. if people believe edwards' concern for the working class is authentic, it doesn't matter what he spends money on.
for what it's worth, i, for one, personally am not convinced edwards populism is authentic.
for what it's worth, i, for one, personally am not convinced edwards populism is authentic.
Now, ain't that a surprise?
jello --
At this stage I'll accept faux-populism -- it's all we've got (FDR inherited wealth -- I think his populism was real in spite of hiselitist presuppositions, but it didn't matter much to the poor he helped whether it was "real" or not)
At this stage I'll accept faux-populism
Exactly.
And what is inauthentic populism anyway? Sounds as if someone is looking for something to whine about.
Edwards must be out of his mind, but free-wheeling populism has always had its unpredictables---like William Jennings Bryan, who wasted money on string ties and fighting the Free Silver Fizz, and like Robert La Follette, who spent too loosely on gewgaws and grub-staking peasants---and look where it got them.
Now, ain't that a surprise?
i paid too much attention during the '03 campaign and actually looked up voting records and stuff.
i paid too much attention during the '03 campaign and actually looked up voting records and stuff.
BFD.
You hear anyone else talking like Edwards?
Nope.
At this stage I'll accept faux-populism -- it's all we've got (FDR inherited wealth -- I think his populism was real in spite of hiselitist presuppositions, but it didn't matter much to the poor he helped whether it was "real" or not)
Prior Aelred |
i was going to cite fdr too. his empathatic instincts were authentic despite his wealth.
we accept faux populism at what cost? progressive who allow their rhetoric to be coopted by DLCers weaken authentic populists.
How dare someone who isn't poor talk about poverty?
his two americas schtick was his strong suit and he unnecessarily (ahem) undercuts it when he coud've gotten an amazing cut for $150 that no one would've blinked at.
but it's easy to make these kinds of gaffes when you're as wealthy as edwards is.
seriously, why does america insist on being led by multi-millionaires and billionaires who have long since forgotten what life is like for the non-rich?
we accept faux populism at what cost? progressive who allow their rhetoric to be coopted by DLCers weaken authentic populists.
There are no populists. Period. Except Edwards.
You're never going to have a person elected that is as far left as we are.
Never.
travy --
Because no one else can afford to buy an election?
You hear anyone else talking like Edwards?
Nope.
billy b
while i'm not in his camp, kucinich made clear the difference in his health plan and everybody elses. he supports single payer. everybody else involves the insurance lobby.
guess who else supports single payer? gore.
"...i paid too much attention during the '03 campaign and actually looked up voting records and stuff..."
Among those late undecideds, no doubt, of whom the networks never tire collating as so-called representative voters who have something to say, but who, down any election's home stretch, are usually the dumbest people one earth, next, of course, to C-Span callers on any given day.
I like a Gore/Clark ticket -- but they're not running.
Edwards is top tier.
I probably agree mostly with Kucinich - he has as much chance of getting elected as i do on an unannounced write-in campaign.
The most important thing in politics is to chose the lesser of two evils.
If you can't tell any difference between the parties, I assume that you are not in need of an abortion...
Don't forget Howard Dean's sweater, and the fact that his wife was a professional. MoDodo went on and on about that.
Among those late undecideds, no doubt, of whom the networks never tire collating as so-called representative voters who have something to say, but who, down any election's home stretch, are usually the dumbest people one earth
Ashlyn Geer
i grok the bitterness.
prior, silly, of course i'd vote for edwards if he were the nominee.
I had no idea this thread was still flickering.
Ever since the promise of 11/7 has faded into the Democrats queasy tacking between incrementally challenging and essentially opposing the incumbents and their pernicious policies and schemes, while simultaneously assuring the opposition and the public that significant challenges like impeachment or de-funding the evil and corrupt war are off the table.
Sunday before last, I think, Carl Levin made another of those statements, as Obama had not long before, signalling that if push comes to shove the president will get his funding. There's really no way around it.
All this to say that I am back to feeling that I'm really not suited to deal with politics. I really can't muster up the requisite trust in the political class. My personality instinctively rebels at joining organizations and parties, for better or worse.
So I agree with jello here; I could learn to like Edwards more, but from the get-go he reminded me of Bill Clinton: charismatic, personally attractive, bright, articulate. But I don't trust politicians enough to believe that he isn't triangulating right along-- holding out, and maybe genuinely believing, mildly progressive positions, then if elected governing straight from the corporate-friendly center/center-right.
And the AIPAC hawk stance is a mortal deficiency.
"..Edwards is top tier.
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Not as a candidate.
His main problem is taste, as demonstrated buy his continuing inability to distinguish between resolve and exploitation, and his weakness, which Clinton also had in a worse way, of not knowing a good haircut when he saw one. From the back, each photographs like Rotarian prayer leaders right out of Main Street.
One thing about Bush. He doesn't have this problem, but he gets his hair trimmed every three days, always a light, conservative cut and so he consistently looks---like all good actors but so few Democrats---that he doesn't need a haircut or that he just got one. Likewise Cary Grant, Gable and the usual showstoppers.
MoDo doesn't seem able to either think up something clever or do research. She has become a very lazy girl by re-writing what she feels is low hanging convential wisdom. As I recall, Ms. Dowd had some unflattering things to say about Judith Miller. Doesn't she recognize that though the style differs, her method is the same. Take notes from the Republican talking points, and regurgitate. This is not journalism, it's not useful, it's not professional. If MoDo wants to use biting sarcasm that's fine. But does she really think the cost of Edward's haircut is revaltory of some great and urgent truth the public must be informed about? Oh that's right, these are simply the little things that amuse her, and serious in depth reporting are not her beat. She can't help it if she's shallow.
Edwards may not have paid four bills.
If he did, that's more than joe average makes after taxes at most jobs.
Let that sink in before you make this an echo chamber like '04 where Kerry ignoring swift boats was seen as the way to go...
Swift Barbers for Truth?
A plan to (hair)cut the deficit?
Most likely it's MoDo talking out hers, flinging poo with the hope something sticks.
How Edwards will respond will determine much of the coming race. If he hems and haws and plays light then it's time to draft Gore. Don't take anything for granted.
thoughtless bint
And speaking of ModDo's har, DOES THE COUCH MATCH THE DRAPES?
It's a sad day when ostensibly serious outlets like the AP and the NY Times are more trivial than the Colbert Report, which actually broadcast the content of Edwards' speech and treated the story about his haircut with the dismissiveness it deserves.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/20...ds-400-haircut/
"What does a rich guy know about helping the poor? (other than FDR)"
Well that editorial should remove any doubt that Smurfette at the NYTimes Op-Ed hive colony is a regressive moron.
I'm sure she predicted that Kennedy was too hairy and pretty to get elected too.
On MSNBC the other day they played a tape of Edwards combing his hair in slow motion, apparently preparing for an interview, and got Mary Matalin to comment. It would appear that Dem candidates should not allow themselves to be filmed getting ready for public functions lest the MoDo crowd use the footage to look for evidence of "character."
She's a hack. When the facelifts stop working, she's through.
her columns make a dandy bird cage liner
Now you know why she's always crying about not being able to find a date.
The root of this is twofold:
1) Some people think it's hypocrisy to see a rich man - John Edwards - helping the poor. Why? That's just being helpful. It's a fact: he is a rich man (like all the candidates). He paid 10 times more for a haircut than I do. I bet he paid 10 times more for his car, for his house, for everything. Whatever.
2) Most public people who appear regularly on TV spend a lot of effort on their appearance. It's the game. As another commentator said, Ronald Reagan was probably the best-groomed president and few called him a wussie. Another noted that Edwards played college football, while Bush was a cheerleader. Kerry served in battle, Bush did not. Does any of this register on the Manly Traits List you keep, Chris Matthews?
Authentic has to do with action. That means, surprise! George Bush is not an authentic cowboy OR fighter pilot. He is an authentic idiot.
John Edwards is a product of the working class who got rich. (More power to him.) But so what? Like said upstairs, FDR was about as upper=class as they come, but he felt that America had to treat its workers well. John Edwards actually notices that American workers are no longer being treated well. His early thought recently was that he thought about those who were facing what his wife was facing but without insurance. Do you think Bush thinks of things like that? Do you think Guiliani thinks of his own good fortune and then reminds himself that others haven't been so lucky?
I like John Edwards. Hey, call me unfashionable, but I think we have some good candidates on the Dem side-- I would be happy to vote for several of them.
I would mostly be happy never to see "R" beside the presidency ever again. Yeah, I guess I'm a yellow dog-- I'd sooner vote for a yellow dog than a Repub.
I can't wait to read the Dragon Lady's column about Laura Bush's $700 Sally Hershberger do http://tinyurl.com/3b9ywk. Yeah, I know it will be a long wait...
Let me get this straight... Rudy Guiliani dresses up as a woman and makes out with Donald Trump. Gee Dumya was a cheerleader. Yet, the righttards call Edwards "girly" because he's well-groomed???
At least Edwards doesn't lick his comb with his own spittle and brush through the remaining hair he has left...like Wolfowitz.
Face it. The Republicans are scared of John Edwards winning the Democratic nomination next year and their having to run one of their ethically and morally challenged Republican candidates against him.
They know that a President John Edwards, once in the White House, would hold all the "culture of corruption" Republicans accountable, launching internal White House investigations into everything the outgoing absolutely corrupt Bush/Cheney administration has been doing, leaving no stone unturned.
Plus, the Republicans (like the evil Karl Rove) know that using blatant smear tactics against candidate John Edwards will certainly backfire, especially with Edward's courageous wife battling cancer. Any attacks against Edwards will be viewed by many patriotic and loyal Americans as being just plain mean, and they will vote for candidate John Edwards out of sympathy, giving him the White House, especially if any Republican men or Republican male media hacks are doing the attacking.
So, Maureen Dowd, in an attempt to appear "fair and balanced" does a hit piece on John Edward's hair, just so she won't be banned from the cocktail wienie social circuit in Washington D.C.. We can expect more attacks on Edwards from members of the Republican Party women's auxiliary.
My suggestion to John Edwards. Get an Elvis Presley wig, and when attacked again over your hair, put on the Elvis wig, do your best Elvis impression and say, "Thank you very much."
It can't hurt bringing Elvis into the picture, especially where hair is involved, since Elvis had a great head of hair, like John Edwards.
Plus, from that point onward, any attack against Edward's full head of hair will be viewed as an attack on Elvis' full head of hair, as well as an attack on the King of Rock and Roll. This cannot help but turnoff a huge number of independent, southern Republicans and even some southern conservative Democrats, who will shift their preference for president to John Edwards.
Once again, the Republican strategists are scared of John Edwards winning the Democratic nomination. Edwards is intelligent, compassionate, articulate and photogenic, essentially from the same winning mold as John F. Kennedy. Thus, the slime-ball Republicans will do everything possible to keep him from being nominated by Democrats to represent them, as well as all of America, in next year's presidential election.
So, we can expect the Republican "swift-boat" attacks all Democratic candidates, but especially John Edwards, to increase in intensity and frequency. The Republicans, in a panic after the November 2006 elections, know that a Democratic president in the White House will spell the doom of their Communist-like totalitarian plan for our democratic, free country. And vicious beasts (the Republicans) when cornered become even more vicious.
Old Maid Dowd comments on Edwards' hair. Dowd NEEDS to spend at least $400 on her own.
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